Quotes about publicity

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

— Brendan F. Behan

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.

— Brendan F. Behan

The price of justice is eternal publicity.

— Arnold Bennett

Publicity is the life of this culture. Without publicity capitalism could not survive and at the same time publicity is its dream.

— John Berger

The monster of advertisement... is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat, to spit out again at the public.

— Sarah Bernhardt

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the genius of the personage, the greater the profit.

— George Grosz

With publicity comes humiliation.

— Tama Janowitz

Of course I'm a publicity hound. Aren't all crusaders? How can you accomplish anything unless people know what you are trying to do?

— Vivien Kellems

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

— Thomas E. Lawrence

What kills the skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

— Abraham Lincoln

We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping.

— Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

If you want an audience start a fight.

— Irish Proverb

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.

— William Shakespeare

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

— Gore Vidal

Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.

— Virginia Woolf

You cannot be a secret and be profitable.

— Suzanne Evans